Word: tree
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...children, most of them Negroes, from Washington settlement houses. Lyndon joined them for a puppet show in the East Room, was greeted by one boy with an airy "Hi, Johnson"; later, he escorted them to the Blue Room to see an 18-ft. balsam fir Christmas tree, thence to the State Dining Room for ice cream and eggnog...
...there was a Lang film called Fury in which an innocent boy is suspected of abducting another little girl and almost gets hanged (from a tall tree?). Only in 1943 did Lang come close to solving his problem by acknowledging his intense mother love and symbolically murdering himself as his guilt feelings dictated. It was a film about a perfect heroine and it was entitled Hangman...
Alarmed by these inroads-even in Canada, artificial-tree sales will surpass $1,000,000 this year-Canadian tree growers are trying to retaliate with better, less expensive trees. Farmers who cut and sell wild trees for extra income are being edged out by large tree plantations, where as many as a million evergreens are mechanically planted, protected and harvested, then carefully graded by size and shape. To protect their trees, shippers have begun to wrap them in a new plastic mesh that costs about 25? a tree but ensures arrival in good condition. At Montreal's MacDonald College...
Canadians also are relying on tradition to help retain their market. "We live in an artificial environment," says Dr. Jones. "The Christmas tree is one of the few things left that is natural...
Died. Sam Stept, 67, composer of such Tin Panalities as Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone and I'II Always Be in Love with You, but best remembered for his World War II smasheroo, Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree; of a stroke; in Los Angeles...